OT- digital camera

Pull the photos off the card with photo recovery software (cheap download on line). Then reformat the card. Also, some of the digital cameras have occasional software firmware upgrades that you shoud check for online that you can download through the PC using the cable you are provided for uploading pictures. ALso, the card may be 'dirty'.

You are a long way from thinking your camera is dead/dying.

I am surprised your camera will allow new pictures and overwrite existing pictures – check your camera settings for this option and change if necessary.

If the pictures are important get them saved on to your computer or other device. Don’t proceed until that is done. The card can be looked at in another device or in a notebook computer or desktop if you have a card reader or card reader built into either type machine. Your camera uses an ‘XD’ card memory card. Card readers are cheap to free if one watches sales at office supply stores and electronic store sales.

Once you have saved your pictures (if they need to be saved), then...

If you still have the supplied stock memory card you have 16MB available. Is there a movie type picture saved on the card, are there extra directories stored on the card. Did camera setting change so the picture sizes are huge?

Card’s can wear out but not likely. If you want to clean the card use an eraser from a pencil and LIGHTLY erase over the contacts on the card. COMPLETELY CLEAN the dust off of the card before putting the card back in the camera. DON’T use liquids. However, if the card is recording any pictures then it probably is not dirty.

There are a lot of possibilities to explore before taking this next step. But if you are in a hurry, try reformatting the card from within the camera routines.

It would be quicker to talk about the possibilities and potential steps. Email your phone # to me or call me if you want to talk some options. (801) 967-7696 time zone here is Mountain Standard. I’m not an expert on this stuff but I didn’t fall off the pumpkin tuck last night either.

Kent

Funny you should post this, I have an Olympus D-390 sitting on my desk right now... right beside the Cannon SD1000 I replaced it with. My Olympus has been demoted to "jeep camera" status, I can leave it in the jeep center console and not care if someone makes off with it but I stil have a decent camera if I see the Loch Ness monster making out with Bigfoot or something. It has been having some similar problems lately, mostly me screwing up something in the menu settings. It also eats batteries like they were ABTs or something. Do yourself a favor and pick up and a Cannon SD1000 or similar, you will be blown away by the small size, image quality, and battery life. Plus they use generic sd cards rather than those expensive xd cards. The sd1000 is usually available on sale for $150.00 or less.

Jon